Germany, Heer. A Krim Shield, By Josef Feix & Söhne Hold on a tan/khaki-coloured rayon base

on a tan/khaki-coloured rayon base

Meyer spent nine months at the SS Junker School in Bad Tölz

National Fascist Party (NS) Vlasti Zdar "Homeland" Membership Badge: in bronze gilt with red

The USS Louisville had been in the battle area fifty-nine straight days and nights in the Marianas Campaign

circa 1810-15

Germany, Heer. A Krim Shield, By Josef Feix & Söhne Hold on a tan/khaki-coloured rayon base(Heer Krimschild). Constructed of bronzed magnetic metal, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing a raised map of Crimea and southern Ukraine, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, flanked by dates 1941 1942, attached with all four reverse attachment prongs to a magnetic metal backplate with a field grey wool liner indicating Heer issue, the reverse retaining a partially intact black paper liner bearing the makers mark